Her parents are Honduran.
She is the mother of son Sebastian Piers Williams (b. May 29, 2018) and daughter Lucia Marisol Williams (b. May 4, 2020), together with her husband Ryan Piers Williams.
She is the youngest person to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won the award at age 23.
Lloyd's of London insured America's smile for $10 million.
During an interview with Alexis Bledel, her co-star in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), for Latina Magazine, she was stunned to learn that Alexis spoke Spanish and used the language throughout the making of the film.
She is the youngest of 6 siblings.
She shares her name with her mother.
(June 27, 2011) She married her boyfriend of 6 years, Ryan Piers Williams, after a one-year engagement.
One of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People.
She began acting in community theater and school plays at age eight.
She studied International Relations at the University of Southern California.
She stars as "Betty Suarez" in ABC's Ugly Betty (2006) (aka "Betty La Fea" - US). A modern retelling of the ugly duckling tale.
One of Time magazine's 50 Most Influential People of 2006.
She appeared in a film selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Real Women Have Curves (2002).
Two of her films, Lords of Dogtown (2005) and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), were released in the US on the same day: Friday, June 3, 2005.
She was reportedly set to star in An Invisible Sign (2010), but Jessica Alba took her place before filming began.
Between 1994 and 1995 she attended Calabash Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley, where she played one of the lead characters in the 5th grade graduation play "Oliver." She played the "Artful Dodger" in the production.
She plays "CB's Sister" in the Off-Broadway play "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" at the Century Center for the Performing Arts (New York, NY).
She ranked 84th on Maxim magazine's 2008 Hot 100 list.
Filming for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008).
She campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 American presidential race.